Dr. Daniel Braun (2016-2021)
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Daniel Braun was a research associate at the chair of Software Engineering for Business Information Systems (sebis) at the Technical University of Munich from 2016 to 2021. He holds a master's degree in Computing Science from the University of Aberdeen, where he was a research student and scholar of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation supervised by Prof Ehud Reiter. From 2010 to 2014 he worked as student research assistant in the Intelligent User Interfaces Department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.
Completed Projects
- AI-Supported Legal Review of Terms and Conditions to Strengthen Consumer Protection (AGB-Check)
- Technology Scouting as a Service (TSaaS)
- Vertical Social Software (VSS)
- TUM Living Lab Connected Mobility (TUM LLCM)
- Meta Model based Natural Language Generation for Automatic Abstractive Text Summarization (A-SUM)
- Software Aided Analysis of Terms of Services (SaToS)
- Meta Model based Natural Language Generation (MONTAGUE)
Research Interests
- Natural Language Generation (NLG)
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Data-2-Text
- Conversational Interfaces / Chatbots
- LegalTech
- Automotive and mobility data
Invited Talks (selection)
- Automation of legal decision making processes, Legal Tech Day, HTWG Konstanz, 18.10.2019
- Software-aided Anaylsis of Terms of Services, ReMeP Conference, 24.09.2019, Vienna
- AI & Robotics, Volkswagen AutoUni, 05.03.2019, Wolfsburg
- Debusting Chatbot Myths, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group AI Day, 06.12.2018, Stuttgart
- Chatbots & Socialbots, Volkswagen AutoUni, 27.09.2018, Wolfsburg
- NLU Services and Chatbot Frameworks, Siemens Chatbot Day, 20.07.2017, Feldafing
- Applied Simulations and Procedural Modelling, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, 26.06.2016, Weimar
Tools and Resources
| SimpleNLG-DE | Open source java library for surface realisation in German |
| MucLex | A German lexicon for surface realisation based on Wiktionary (ISLRN 206-939-257-359-6) |
| NLU-Evaluation-Corpora | English corpora for evaluating NLU services (ISLRN 165-571-578-116-6) |
| NLU-Evaluation-Scripts | Python scripts for the automatic evaluation of NLU services |
Publications
| 2021 |
| Schopf. Tim; Braun, Daniel; Matthes, Florian Lbl2Vec: An Embedding-based Approach for Unsupervised Document Retrieval on Predefined Topics Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - WEBIST, doi: 10.5220/0010710300003058 |
| Braun, Daniel Automated Semantic Analysis, Legal Assessment, and Summarization of Standard Form Contracts PhD Thesis |
| Braun, Daniel; Matthes, Florian NLP for Consumer Protection: Battling Illegal Clauses in German Terms and Conditions in Online Shopping Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact |
| Braun, Daniel; Klymenko, Oleksandra; Schopf, Tim; Akan, Kaan; Matthes, Florian The Language of Engineering: Training a Domain-Specific Word Embedding Model for Engineering MSIE 2021: 2021 3rd International Conference on Management Science and Industrial Engineering (Best Presentation), doi: 10.1145/3460824.3460826 |
| 2020 |
| Braun, Daniel; Matthes, Florian Automatic Detection of Terms and Conditions in German and English Online Shops Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-478-7, pages 233-237, doi: 10.5220/0010154302330237 (Best Poster Award) |
| Braun, Daniel; Bhat, Manoj; Biesdorf, Andreas; Matthes, Florian Would You Lie To Me Bot? Supporting Decision-Making Processes with Deceiving Virtual Agents Procedia Computer Science, Vol. 177, 587-592, doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2020.10.083 |
| Klymenko, Oleksandra; Braun, Daniel; Matthes, Florian Automatic Text Summarization: a State-of-the-art Review Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, doi: 10.5220/0009723306480655 |
| Braun, Daniel; Sajwan, Anupama, Matthes, Florian User-Adaptable Natural Language Generation for Regression Testing within the Finance Domain Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, doi: 10.5220/0009563306130618 |
| Klimt, Kira; Braun, Daniel; Schneider, Daniela; Matthes, Florian MucLex: A German Lexicon for Surface Realisation Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference |
| 2019 |
| Braun, Daniel; Scepankova, Elena; Holl, Patrick; Matthes, Florian The Potential of Customer-Centered LegalTech Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuD, 43(12), 760-766, doi: 10.1007/s11623-019-1202-7 |
| Braun, Daniel; Klimt, Kira; Schneider, Daniela; Matthes, Florian SimpleNLG-DE: Adapting SimpleNLG 4 to German Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG) 2019, Tokyo, Japan |
| Braun, Daniel; Scepankova, Elena; Holl, Patrick; Matthes, Florian Consumer Protection in the Digital Era: The Potential of Customer-Centered LegalTech INFORMATIK 2019: 50 Jahre Gesellschaft für Informatik – Informatik für Gesellschaft. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.. (p. 407-420), doi: 10.18420/inf2019_58 |
| Braun, Daniel; Matthes, Florian Towards a Framework for Classifying Chatbots Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, Heraklion, Greece, 2019 |
| 2018 |
| Braun, Daniel; Faber, Anne; Hernandez Mendez, Adrian; Matthes, Florian Automatic Relation Extraction for Building Smart City Ecosystems using Dependency Parsing Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI 2018) |
| Braun, Daniel; Reiter, Ehud;Siddharthan, Advaith SaferDrive: an NLG-based Behaviour Change Support System for Drivers Natural Language Engineering, 24(4), 551-588, doi: 10.1017/S1351324918000050 |
| Braun, Daniel; Scepankova, Elena; Holl, Patrick; Matthes, Florian Customer-Centered LegalTech: Automated Analysis of Standard Form Contracts IRIS: Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposium 2018 (nominated for LexisNexis best paper award) |
| Braun, Daniel; Matthes, Florian Generating Explanations for Algorithmic Decisions of Usage-Based Insurances using Natural Language Generation Software Engineering und Software Management 2018. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik, doi: 20.500.12116/16354 |
| Braun, Daniel; Hernandez Mendez, Adrian; Faber, Anne; Langen, Manfred; Matthes, Florian Customer-Centred Intermodal Combination of Mobility Services with Conversational Interfaces Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) 2018, Band 4 |
| 2017 |
| Landthaler, Jörg; Waltl, Bernhard; Braun, Daniel; Huth, Dominik; Stocker, Christoph; Geiger, Thomas; Matthes, Florian Improving Thesauri Using Word Embeddings and a Novel Intersection Method Proceedings of 2nd Workshop Workshop on Automated Semantic Analysis of Information in Legal Texts (ASAIL 2017), CEUR-WS.org |
| Braun, Daniel; Scepankova, Elena; Holl, Patrick; Matthes, Florian SaToS: Assessing and Summarising Terms of Services from German Webshops Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, doi 10.18653/v1/W17-3534 |
| Braun, Daniel; Hernandez Mendez, Adrian; Matthes, Florian; Langen, Manfred Evaluating Natural Language Understanding Services for Conversational Question Answering Systems Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, doi 10.18653/v1/W17-5522 |
| Hernandez Mendez, Adrian; Braun, Daniel; Matthes, Florian; Langen, Manfred Towards a Context-Aware Vertical Social Software Ecosystem 2017 IEEE 19th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI), doi 10.1109/CBI.2017.7 |
| 2016 |
| Braun, Daniel Creating Textual Driver Feedback from Telemetric Data Master's Thesis, University of Aberdeen |
| 2015 |
| Braun, Daniel; Reiter, Ehud; Siddharthan, Advaith Creating Textual Driver Feedback from Telemetric Data Proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015. |
| 2014 |
| Braun, Daniel Processing Semantic Information from Procedural Modelling Rules for Driving Simulation Bachelor's Thesis, Universität des Saarlandes |
| 2012 |
| Endres, Christoph; Math, Rafael; Braun, Daniel Simulator-based evaluation on the impact of visual complexity and speed on driver’s cognitive load Adjunct Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 2012. |
| 2011 |
| Endres, Christoph; Braun, Daniel; Müller, Christian Prototyping a Semi-Automatic In-Car Texting Assistant Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications (MIAA 2011), 2011. |
| Braun, Daniel; Endres, Christoph; Müller, Christian Determination of Mobility Context using Low-Level Data Adjunct Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2011), 2011. |
| 2010 |
| Endres, Christoph; Braun, Daniel Pleopatra: A semi-automatic status-posting prototype for future in-car use Adjunct proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2010), 2010. |
| Endres, Christoph; Miksatko, Jan; Braun, Daniel Youldeco-Exploiting the Power of Online Social Networks for Eco-Friendly Driving Adjunct proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2010), 2010. |
Teaching
| Term | Level | Title | Type | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SS 21 | Master (LLM) | Rechtsinformatik für Fortgeschrittene (Saarland University) | Lecture | Lecturer |
| SS 21 | Master | Natural Language Processing - Methods and Applications | Seminar | Organizer |
| WS 20/21 | Master | Master Lab Course Web Applications | Lab Course | Advisor |
| SS 20 | Master (LLM) | Rechtsinformatik für Fortgeschrittene (Saarland University) | Lecture | Lecturer |
| SS 20 | Master | Natural Language Processing - Methods and Applications | Seminar | Organizer |
| WS 19/20 | Master | Strategic IT Management & Enterprise Architecture Management | Lecture | Advisor |
| SS 19 | Master | Natural Language Processing - Methods and Applications | Seminar | Organizer |
| SS 19 | Master | Software Engineering for Business Applications - Master Course | Lecture & Projects | Advisor |
| WS 18/19 | Master | Advanced Topics of Software Engineering | Lecture & Exercise | Organizer |
| SS 18 | Master | Software Engineering for Business Applications - Master Course | Lecture & Projects | Advisor |
| SS 18 | Master | Natural Language Processing - Methods and Applications | Seminar | Organizer |
| WS 17/18 | Master | Master Lab Course Web Applications | Lab Course | Advisor |
| WS 17/18 | Bachelor | Software Engineering for Business Applications | Lecture & Excercise | Advisor |
| SS 17 | Master | Software Engineering for Business Applications - Master Course | Lecture & Projects | Advisor |
| SS 17 | Master | Natural Language Processing - Methods and their Application on Legal Texts | Seminar | Advisor |
| WS 16/17 | Master | Master Lab Course Web Applications | Lab Course | Advisor |
| WS 16/17 | Bachelor | Software Engineering for Business Applications | Lecture & Excercise | Advisor |